Student leaders get tips on how to lobby

11:16 PM,
Nov. 27, 2012

Written by

Adam B Sullivan
| Iowa City Press-Citizen

State policymakers next month are expected to vote on a plan to freeze undergraduate tuition for Iowans at the state's public universities.

Some student leaders say that's a sign their advoacy efforts are working.

"I think students are starting to figure out how tuition is set and this is one thing they can really understand," University of Iowa Student Government President Nic Pottebaum said. "If you go and talk about that personally, as opposed to extrapolated hundreds of millions of dollars, it's really easy for people to understand." ...